Ir you give a damn, find a functional group
Our "leaders" are going to keep making empty promises. It makes them feel good. It gets the activists to act like zombie kittens. If you want to have some self-respect and perhaps make a difference (actual facts may vary), then find a functioning group that cares about your skills and knowledge - what you have, what you want. One useful group might be www.climateemergencymanchester.net - you can email them on contact@climateemergencymanchester.net-
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Category Archives: academia
Professor Geoff Beattie interviewed about behaviour change
Professor Beattie, author of “ Why Aren’t we Saving the Planet?”(reviewed here) talks to MCFly writer Laurence Menhinick about his research and his conclusions about between our explicit behaviour (what we say we do) and implicit behaviour (what we actually … Continue reading
Posted in academia, education
Tagged behaviour change, Laurence Menhinick, Professor Geoff Beattie
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Carbon literacy versus “carbon capability”
Many of the academic articles we read here are MCFly Towers – when we aren’t organising the climate hustings on Tuesday 17th April – are obtuse, abstruse vocabulary abuse. That is, they are long on long words, short on good … Continue reading
Prof Kevin Anderson withdraws from conference – “offsetting without scientific legitimacy”
Breaking News: Professor Kevin Anderson, the Manchester-based Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre, has withdrawn from a prestigious conference because of its use of “carbon offsetting.” In a strongly-worded blog post, entitled “Offsetting (& CDM): a guarantee for 100 years … Continue reading
Event Report: Ecology as the Opium of the People
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson attends a meeting with muscle relaxants mentioned in the title, but comes away neither relaxed or impressed. Wrap your thinking gear around this quote from the eco-thriller “Zdt” Wrong. Nature in the Middle Ages was a … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Event reports
Tagged apocalypse, ecological modernisation, zizek
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Slumming it: Telescopic Urbanism and the poor
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson reports on a lecture by one of the Big Fish in urban theory. Attention Conservation Notice: This article is more about urban theory than climate change per se, but then again, if you think the two … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Event reports
Tagged Ash Amin, slums, social democracy, splintering urbanism, urbanism
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Volunteer Opportunity: Auditing MMU
This may not seem so sexy, but think a) of how good it will look on your CV, b) of how much you’ll learn and c) the warm inner glow (insulated) of having helped make Manchester just that tiny smidgin … Continue reading
Event Report: “Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change”
“Going Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: Exploring the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing carbon emissions” – A talk by Professor Kevin Anderson on Tuesday 6th March 2012 Professor Kevin Anderson gave a very honest talk on ‘dangerous climate change’ … Continue reading
Interview: UK emissions and energy scenarios
Maria Sharmina, Doctoral Researcher at the Sustainable Consumption Institute and affiliated to Tyndall Centre Manchester, answers questions from MCFly volunteer Kate Matthews, ahead of her “lecture and a curry” on Tuesday 13th March at the University of Manchester Students Union … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Energy, Mitigation, Upcoming Events
Tagged Maria Sharmina, Tyndall Centre
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Book Review: Politics of Urban Runoff – Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City
You may have noticed that, in Manchester, it rains. A lot. What happens after it rains, and the ways that cities deal with that urban runoff, is the subject of this interesting book. It begins by charting the shift from … Continue reading
You’re retro-fit (but my gosh, don’t you know it)
Retrofit Conference @ Salford Quays, 24-26 January Last week, I attended the UK’s first conference on how to sustainably retrofit the existing house stock. It was a three day affair held at the Lowry in Salford although I only made … Continue reading
Posted in academia, AGMA, Energy, Event reports, GM Climate Strategy
Tagged Brenda Boardman, Michael O'Doherty, University of Salford
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